Research documents that parental beliefs influence early investments in children, which, in turn, determine early human … capital and, eventually, other skills children acquire in later stages of the lifecycle, such as literacy. Our paper reports … teaches the science of early language development, models verbal interaction behaviors with children, and provides objective …

enrolled 2,246 seventh and eighth graders and their parents, whom we assigned, at the classroom level, to the control or … intervention condition randomly. We measured, before and after the intervention, parental investments, children's empathy, and self …

ratings distribution, decreases adult criminal involvement. Accountability pressures also reduce the propensity of students …

; compounded over 5 years of primary schooling, this difference is similar in size to the test score gap between low- and high-income … countries. Second, students learn more in private schools (0.15 sd per year on average), but substantial within-sector variation … in quality means that the effects of reallocating students from public to private schools can range from -0.35sd to +0 …

markets with several public and private schools are now pervasive in low- and middle-income countries, prudent policy requires …

tried to integrate schools. Today, district-wide choice allows Boston and New York students to enroll far from home, perhaps …

-need schools on students' longer-run educational, criminal justice, and economic self-sufficiency outcomes. Using linked …